Devendra Sahal

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Devendra Sahal is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Economics and Econometrics and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Devendra Sahal has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 5 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Devendra Sahal's work include Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting (16 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (15 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (7 papers). Devendra Sahal is often cited by papers focused on Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting (16 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (15 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (7 papers). Devendra Sahal collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Devendra Sahal's co-authors include M. Granger Morgan, Harold A. Linstone, Albert R. Wildt, Rohit Deshpandé, Everett M. Rogers, Lawrence A. Brown and E. Kay and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Research Policy and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Devendra Sahal

42 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Patterns of Technological Innovation 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Patterns of Technological Innovation
    1982 532 citations Devendra Sahal et al. Southern Economic Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Devendra Sahal United States 14 766 747 577 359 107 46 1.7k
Nancy L. Schwartz United States 19 685 0.9× 1.6k 2.1× 460 0.8× 288 0.8× 115 1.1× 46 2.4k
Richard S. Rosenbloom United States 14 1.5k 2.0× 682 0.9× 548 0.9× 495 1.4× 183 1.7× 35 2.3k
W. J. Abernathy United States 5 996 1.3× 409 0.5× 303 0.5× 367 1.0× 131 1.2× 7 1.5k
Gregory Tassey United States 22 621 0.8× 822 1.1× 149 0.3× 330 0.9× 158 1.5× 51 1.6k
J. S. Metcalfe United Kingdom 15 601 0.8× 827 1.1× 218 0.4× 336 0.9× 126 1.2× 28 1.5k
Howard Rush United Kingdom 20 1.1k 1.5× 509 0.7× 237 0.4× 495 1.4× 154 1.4× 56 1.9k
Steven P. Schnaars United States 16 308 0.4× 255 0.3× 516 0.9× 110 0.3× 125 1.2× 35 1.2k
Hariolf Grupp Germany 21 947 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 325 0.6× 691 1.9× 331 3.1× 79 2.5k
Gerald Silverberg Netherlands 14 469 0.6× 995 1.3× 359 0.6× 227 0.6× 112 1.0× 23 1.5k
Dennis A. Yao United States 19 574 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 391 0.7× 636 1.8× 69 0.6× 53 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Devendra Sahal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Devendra Sahal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Devendra Sahal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Devendra Sahal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Devendra Sahal. Devendra Sahal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sahal, Devendra. (1993). Technological guideposts and innovation avenues. Research Policy. 22(2). 110–111. 289 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra. (1987). Alternative Conceptions of Technology : Research Policy. 2(4). 552. 2 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra. (1987). Technological Guideposts and Innovation Avenues : Research Policy. 2(4). 577. 10 indexed citations
4.
Sahal, Devendra. (1985). Foundations of technometrics. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 27(1). 1–37. 42 indexed citations
5.
Deshpandé, Rohit, Lawrence A. Brown, Everett M. Rogers, & Devendra Sahal. (1983). A Comparative Review of Innovation Diffusion Books. Journal of Marketing Research. 20(3). 327–327. 3 indexed citations
6.
Morgan, M. Granger & Devendra Sahal. (1983). The Transfer and Utilization of Technical Knowledge. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2(3). 479–479. 28 indexed citations
7.
Sahal, Devendra, et al.. (1982). Research, Development and Technological Innovation. Technology and Culture. 23(2). 278–278. 43 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra, et al.. (1982). Patterns of Technological Innovation. Southern Economic Journal. 49(2). 571–571. 532 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sahal, Devendra, et al.. (1981). Who Learns What? A Conceptual Description of Capability and Learning in Technological Systems. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 32(11). 1048–1048. 4 indexed citations
10.
Sahal, Devendra. (1981). The determinants of best‐practice technology. R and D Management. 11(1). 25–32.
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Sahal, Devendra. (1980). Research, development, and technological innovation : recent perspectives on management. 2 indexed citations
12.
Sahal, Devendra. (1980). Models of technological development and their relevance to advances in transportation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 16(3). 209–227. 5 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra. (1979). The Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Diffusion of Technology. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. 9(12). 829–839. 6 indexed citations
14.
Sahal, Devendra. (1979). A theory of evolution of technology. International Journal of Systems Science. 10(3). 259–274. 8 indexed citations
15.
Sahal, Devendra. (1979). A UNIFIED THEORY OF SELF-ORGANIZATION. Journal of Cybernetics. 9(2). 127–142. 22 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra. (1978). A Formulation of the Pareto Distribution. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 10(12). 1363–1376. 2 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra. (1978). PRINCIPLES OF REGULATION AND CONTROL. Kybernetes. 7(1). 19–24. 4 indexed citations
18.
Sahal, Devendra. (1978). Systemic similitude. International Journal of Systems Science. 9(12). 1351–1357. 1 indexed citations
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Sahal, Devendra. (1976). On the conception and measurement of technology: A case study of the aircraft design process. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 8(4). 385–399. 8 indexed citations
20.
Sahal, Devendra. (1976). A spectral analytic study of some postulates concerning engineering design and related processes. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 8(3). 285–308. 1 indexed citations

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